Now waiting by mail box!

[WB5YYQ]

Online application - 4/7
L1 fingerprinting - 4/12
CHL class - 4/28
package mailed - 4/30
background check under review - 5/17
background check completed - 5/30
manufacturing pending - 5/30
manufacturing - 5/31
mailed - 6/1

Hopefully just a few more days!

[Tbucher1218]

waiving to you from my box. I already had a long wait in BR, hoping this part goes fast!

[thebeardedone]

I must admit, I spent an inordinate amount of time clicking through these boards for the entirety of the wait. Yet, here we are finally at 'Mailed' before I register.

I don't know how some of you managed to wait for so long, I'd have gone nuts.

For posterity's/comedy's sake I recorded not simply status updates, but every time I checked. I'd have probably checked more if I hadn't read here previously how long it takes!

But alas...

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2012-05-01: Fingerprints at L-1, packet Express mailed to DPS
2012-05-02: USPS delivery confirmation of packet receipt
2012-05-15: Still waiting
2012-05-16: First Status Update on CHL Website

Application:                    Received
Fingerprints:                   Complete
Affidavits:                     Received
DL or ID:                       Valid
Citizenship:                    No documentation required
Passport photo holder:          Received
Photo:                          Received
Proof of Classroom training:    Received
Proof of Proficiency training:  Received
Fee:                            Received
Background Check:               Under review
Concealed Handgun License:      Print pending completion of application review

2012-05-20: No update
2012-05-25: No update
2012-05-29: No update
2012-05-30: Second Status Update on CHL Website (Wednesday)

Application:                    Received
Fingerprints:                   Complete
Affidavits:                     Received
DL or ID:                       Valid
Citizenship:                    No documentation required
Passport photo holder:          Received
Photo:                          Received
Proof of Classroom training:    Received
Proof of Proficiency training:  Received
Fee:                            Received
Background Check:               Completed
Concealed Handgun License:      Manufacturing Pending

2012-06-01: Third Status Update on CHL Website (Friday)

Application:                    Received
Fingerprints:                   Complete
Affidavits:                     Received
DL or ID:                       Valid
Citizenship:                    No documentation required
Passport photo holder:          Received
Photo:                          Received
Proof of Classroom training:    Received
Proof of Proficiency training:  Received
Fee:                            Received
Background Check:               Completed
Concealed Handgun License:      Mailed

You can see the improvement in my patience as time crawled along :)

If mail takes the full 15 days I'm going to have a fit. Watch, that's precisely what will happen, as the entire rest of my process has apparently been comparably quick.

[Tbucher1218]

I'm not saying anything , I think I jinxed myself on the BR

[thebeardedone]

I'm not saying anything , I think I jinxed myself on the BR

my background check appears to have been atypically quick. Not complaining (nor bragging!), mind you, just a bit surprised.

Wonder who actually does it; wondering as I had a background check for something work-related relatively recently, so if there's some colossal database of "yeah, this guy is kosher up to and as of mm/dd/yyyy", it might have expedited the process.

I haven't had a traffic ticket in nearly a decade, and aside from a single parking ticket nothing else on my record. Surely that didn't hurt either. *shrug*

[WB5YYQ]

Online application - 4/7
L1 fingerprinting - 4/12
CHL class - 4/28
package mailed - 4/30
background check under review - 5/17
background check completed - 5/30
manufacturing pending - 5/30
manufacturing - 5/31
mailed - 6/1
letter postmarked - 6/4
PLASTIC in hand - 6/6

[Tbucher1218]

Mine went to mailed on 6/1 also, so hopefully mine will be in the mail today as well.

Congrats

[thebeardedone]

checked this thread to see if any of the other 6/1 Mailed guys got theirs

went to mailbox. JACKPOT!

6-6-2012: CHL plastic in hand

Positively giddy. Now, to go buy a new wallet so I don't lose the bloody thing.

[Tbucher1218]

checked this thread to see if any of the other 6/1 Mailed guys got theirs

went to mailbox. JACKPOT!

6-6-2012: CHL plastic in hand

Positively giddy. Now, to go buy a new wallet so I don't lose the bloody thing.

Congrats - Hopefully I will be just as happy when I get home to check my box

[ddegroff]

Big news today! Manufacturing pending!

[Tbucher1218]

Big news today! Manufacturing pending!

congrats, won't be long now

[ddegroff]

Not exactly Flag Day, but we'll take it. Now, to "the walk".